new leaf
Changed ways ahead
A new leaf is a fresh start or reformed behavior, from the image of turning to a blank page in a book.
To turn over a new leaf is to make a change for the better, abandoning old habits: After his heart attack, he turned over a new leaf and started exercising.
The phrase often carries skepticism about whether the change will last.
- fresh startOpportunity to restart unburdened
- turn overRotate to opposite side
- turning overRotating to opposite side
- changeTo make different
- start freshBegin again from zero
growth · sprout · young shoot · green · bud · sapling · branch · tree · autumn · fall · spring · page · chapter · beginning · resolution · rebirth · clean slate · second chance
- literary idiomscatch-22, red herring, white whale, chapter and verse, by the book
- newfresh, recent, current, modern, latest
- redemptionredemption arc, redeemed, forgiven, saved, moral redemption
- fresh startfresh start, clean slate, starting over, do-over, restart
- reinventionfresh start, starting over, clean slate, second chance, comeback
- adaptabilityadapt, flexibility, resilience, adaptability, pliability
new leafbacksliding
Reverting to former sins
relapse · regression · falling back · recidivism · business as usual
new leafbacksliding
Reverting to former sins
falling from grace · moral decline · going astray · slipping back · corruption
new, leaf, newly, newer, newest, newness, renew, renewal, renewable